“If we consider the book as a serious novel, its superficiality irritates us, or if we take it as a short story we are wearied by the protracted explanations.”

+ – Lond. Times. 5: 52. F. 16, ’06. 260w.

“There is a freshness and strength in the pen-painting of people who inhabit this new novel.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 306. My. 12, ’06. 370w.

“Is a triumph of ‘manner.’”

+ Sat. R. 101: 401. Mr. 31, ’06. 280w.

“A highly agreeable romance, suffused with graceful sentiment and containing a half-a-dozen pleasant portraits.”

+ Spec. 96: 263. F. 17, ’06. 740w.

Harriman, Karl Edwin. Girl and the deal. †$1.25. Jacobs.

“The very kind of a tale to rest an overtired brain or to relieve the tedium of a long journey.”